# World Cup 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 7, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615 "2018-06-07T18:09:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/501 "2018-06-21T19:57:59Z")
Now we only need Nigeria to beat Iceland and Argentina to beat Nigeria and carry Caballero to the back of the Chemical Baths and execute him. ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/502 "2018-06-21T20:00:04Z")
Frodo… Man… What the fuck happened?!? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/503 "2018-06-21T20:01:01Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Now we only need Nigeria to beat Iceland and Argentina to beat Nigeria and carry Caballero to the back of the Chemical Baths and execute him. Its Argentina. They’ll drop him from a plane over the Atlantic. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/504 "2018-06-21T20:02:04Z")
So the only way Argentina gets in now is if it defeats Nigeria and Iceland draws both of its two remaining matches. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/505 "2018-06-21T20:03:09Z")
Or, Argentina could beat Nigeria and Iceland also wins one match and loses one, but Argentina would have to absolutely run up the score, perhaps beating Nigeria by 4-5 goals. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/506 "2018-06-21T20:17:48Z")
No, we just need Nigeria to beat Iceland and then Argentina to beat Nigeria and Iceland not to win vs Croacia. It would end: Croacia: 7 or 9 pts Argentina: 4pts Nigeria: 3 pts Iceland: 1 or 2 pts ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/507 "2018-06-21T20:22:50Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > Frodo… Man… What the fuck happened?!? I don’t know man ☹ Perhaps we should have sent Messi to Napoli instead of Barcelona ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/508 "2018-06-21T20:27:57Z")
I’ve had the TV on in the other room during some of the games, so I’ve been listening almost as much as watching. I would have sworn one of the commentators was Mary Carillo. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/509 "2018-06-21T20:31:21Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’ve had the TV on in the other room during some of the games, so I’ve been listening almost as much as watching. I would have sworn one of the commentators was Mary Carillo. Telemundo has a female commentator on one of the matches each day. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/510 "2018-06-21T20:38:08Z")
Not to take anything away from how bad Argentina were, but the referee was also terrible. Yes, it was a chippy game, but he made it worse. He let some really serious fouls go completely, was totally inconsistent in his bookings, and had bad man management. Rebic and Otamendi should both have been sent off. And I can’t even with that business of letting play continue for like 20 seconds with the injured Croatian lying in midfield, then deciding to blow the whistle when Argentina was setting up their attack around the box, then running away after successfully infuriating all 22 players for opposite reasons. If you think there’s a genuine serious problem, blow it dead immediately. Otherwise, you wait until the ball goes out or play is coming back in a way that would endanger the player on the ground. Such a bad feel for the game. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/511 "2018-06-21T20:39:48Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Telemundo has a female commentator on one of the matches each day. Good for them, but that’s not what I was getting at. After the Argentina-Croatia match the Red Square talking heads were dissecting the game and they had a brief segment with the announcers from the stadium. I didn’t catch their names, but they were both guys, and one of them sounds exactly like Mary Carillo. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/512 "2018-06-21T21:33:50Z")
[Highlights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcM5n71XmBo) from Nizhny Novogorod. Goals 1 & 3 are straight out of all youth coaches’ cliches - ‘follow up the ball’ and ‘play to the whistle’. Goal 2 was just awesome. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/513 "2018-06-22T03:41:52Z")
Well **Frodo** Jorge Samapoli certainly knows how to make Argentina lose in major international tournaments, I’ll give him that. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/514 "2018-06-22T05:47:00Z")
There are serious issues in the Argentinian Federation that no manager will magically solve, no matter how talented. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/515 "2018-06-22T11:27:40Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Well **Frodo** Jorge Samapoli certainly knows how to make Argentina lose in major international tournaments, I’ll give him that. We are hoping he goes on to manage Brazil or perhaps Germany… ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/516 "2018-06-22T11:28:55Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > There are serious issues in the Argentinian Federation that no manager will magically solve, no matter how talented. Tru dat. Last Federation Presidential Elections ended up something like 46 votes for the winner and 45 votes for the loser and there are only 90 voters so… ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/517 "2018-06-22T12:22:04Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > We are hoping he goes on to manage Brazil or perhaps Germany… I think his speciality is making Argentina lose; 😉 , like in 2015/2016…and making Higuain shit the bed…though he does that well on his own. Get him the next Chelsea job. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/518 "2018-06-22T12:41:02Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > I think his speciality is making Argentina lose; 😉 , like in 2015/2016…and making Higuain shit the bed…though he does that well on his own. Get him the next Chelsea job. Yes right, I didn’t catch that :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/519 "2018-06-22T12:51:42Z")
Brazil look good but on shaky ground. A Keylor Navas team always has a chance. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615/520 "2018-06-22T12:59:01Z")
Can’t wait for the Iceland match. In what crazy upside down world could Iceland be this close to qualifying for the round of 16 and eliminating Argentina? Viking Power! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-cup-2018/815615.md?page=27)